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R A D I O : C o r u sEntertainment is set toexchange certain Quebecradio stations with Astral

Media. Under the deal, Corustakes Astral's seven AM stations(CKAC Montreal, CHRC QuebecCity, CJRC Hull/Gatineau,CKRS Chicoutimi, CHLN TroisR i v i è r e s , a n d C H L TSherbrooke/CKTS Sherbrooke),including the Radiomedianetwork, as well as CFOM-FMQuebec City.. In exchange, fiveCorus-owned FM stations inregional Quebec (CJOI-FMRimouski, CIKI-FM Rimouski,CFVM-FM Amqui, CFZZ-FM St.Jean-sur-Richelieu, and CJDM-FM Drummondville) will becomepart of Astral Media Radio... TheRadio Starmaker Fund willaward $898,327 to Canadianrecording artists to assist withmarketing, promotional andtouring opportunities – the largestFund expenditure since its firstround of financial support in 2001.The Fund provides grants andbursaries every quarter whichtargets worthy artists and has contributed in excess of $7.2 million to-date. The Radio Starmaker Fund isan initiative of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters, in partnership with the Canadian IndependentRecord Production Association and the Canadian Recording Industry Association... American radioad sales in February were up 1% overall, with RAB saying local was up 3% but that national was down 4%...The BC Lions football club has signed a three-year broadcasting deal with TEAM 1040 Vancouver, leavingits long-time radio broadcast partner, CKNW Vancouver... After a one-day suspension, the Edge 102.1(CFNY) Toronto morning show – Steve Blundell, Jason Barr and Todd Shapiro – are back at work. Thehosts were pulled from the air after gross-out TV personality Steve-O, a guest on the show last Friday, wenttoo far – with sexually suggestive and graphic on-air pranks... Howard Stern is apparently trying to start apay-radio channel to broadcast his syndicated morning show. Stern would like to buy spectrum from asatellite company, then air his show at a subscription fee of $1 per month. But the controversial syndicatedradio star still has about two years left on contract with Infinity Broadcasting. Meantime, the New YorkPost reports that an FCC insider is saying that another Stern indecency fine is in the pipeline... Central

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Island Broadcasting, based atNanaimo, has an agreement to buyCJAV Port Alberni. If CRTCapproval is granted, CJAV will beflipped to FM. Central Islandoperates The Wave/The WolfNanaimo, Ocean FM Parksvilleand The Eagle Courtenay... AirAmerica went to air yesterday(Wednesday) in Portland, Chicago,Los Angeles and New York.Progress Media’s answer to RushLimbaugh began with Host AlFranken, the comedian and author,who made no bones about his maintarget – US President George W.Bush . . . L istener-supportedChristian Radio LIFE 100.3 Barrieraised $17,983 in monthly pledgesplus a one-time category amount of$56,505 during its annual"Sharathon" program... The BearEdmonton gave a dump truckowner tickets to a Metallica concertfor “the great job of advertising thestation logo and concert.” Thetruck, prominent on the YellowHead Trail, was painted almostentirely with station and eventlettering... Broadcast Dialogue Columnist Jamie West and his wife, Rebecca (who works at CH TVHamilton), have a new weekend show on CHML Hamilton called Sunday Brunch. The three-hour programis interactive news and public affairs.

TV/FILM: Canadian Association of Broadcasters President/CEO Glenn O’Farrell says Canada’s privateTV broadcasters need more co-operation from the federal government. In a speech to the BroadcastExecutives Society in Toronto, O'Farrell said the industry is the key to strengthening Canada's culturalidentity. Further, he said, Canadian broadcasters need help from the CRTC to level the playing field fordomestic and foreign broadcasters. While not advocating the pulling of American signals, he did complainthat US broadcasters get a "free ride" here. O'Farrell wouldn’t say how the field could be leveled, butsuggested discussions should take place before the Commission... Meantime, the Canadian Cable TVAssociation has denounced the suggestion of a tax on popular imported US channels. Cable TV companiessay the levy would raise cable and satellite prices while also creating another trade irritant with the US.CCTA President Michael Hennessy says foreign services already contribute to the success of the Canadianbroadcast system, which in turn hands over $118 million to a fund (CTF) used to help fund domestic TVshows... NHL Hockey on-air rights, particularly as they affect the Toronto Maple Leafs, just ain’t what theyused to be. Any plans the club may have had for a rich new deal – a 20% increase in rights fees – are downthe toilet. Now the Leafs are hoping they can at least match the $450,000 a game they got in the five-yeardeal that expires after this season. When the Leafs called for offers, they included rights holder TSN, RogersSportsnet, Global, CH Hamilton and Toronto 1. TSN stunned the Leafs by suggesting a cut. Sportsnet'soffer was only slightly higher, yet that gives it first bidding rights in the next round. The conventional channelswere only marginally interested. The Leafs were counting on the extra cash to help defray the costs of itsown broadcast ventures, estimated to total in the $7 million range (production and carrying games on LeafsTV)... The New VI (CIVI-TV) Victoria Producer/WeatherCaster Marv Piutti, who many know from his yearsin the Toronto market, suffered a heart attack at work just over a week ago. After being released from aVictoria hospital, complications set in. Piutti’s now in a Duncan, BC, hospital near his home and is said tobe recovering well.

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GENERAL: The World Broadcasting Unions International SatelliteOperations Group has approved a set of Universal AccessProcedures for all satellite uplinks – aimed at significantly reducingsatellite interference. The WBU-ISOG includes broadcasters,

satellite operators, transmission service providers and industry groups. TheGroup is calling on broadcasters and satellite operators to collectively helpeliminate satellite interference, with special concern for deliberate eventsof interference caused by rogue carriers which intentionally transmit tosatellite capacity assigned to legitimate users. This interrupts networkbroadcasters that use satellites for news gathering, program acquisitionand distribution... CanWest Global Communications says it plans thelaunch of a multimedia digital newspaper, including news clips andpossibly classified ads linked to video footage. CanWest COO RickCamilleri says the balance of power has shifted from media companies toconsumers in that consumers have limitless access to content. With thatin mind, he says, CanWest’s attempt at integrating different types of mediacould provide a successful business model... Using Rogers Cable pricingas an example, American lawmakers are pushing the US cable industry formore choices. Senators, angry over rising Cable TV subscription fees,want cablecos to give US consumers more choice. Some have threatenedregulation. The Senate Commerce Committee was divided over whetherto try to force cable companies to offer channels on an a la carte basis, butmost agreed that there should be more than just a basic package of 25channels and expanded suite that includes about 60 channels, like a tierof family-friendly channels. The panel released a price sheet from Rogerswhich gives Canadian consumers the chance to create their own digital package of up to 30 channels or pickthematic packages such as family oriented programming.

SIGN-OFFS: Hugh Trueman, 84, in Mississauga. Trueman, known most recently for his 25-year careerin Sales work at CFRB Toronto, was “Uncle Bill” on-air at CHSJ Saint John for almost 25 years earlyin his career. At 15, Trueman was younger than many of the performers who called him Uncle Bill...Bob Harrison, 69, in Kelowna. Harrison was PD and a part of the original CKIQ Kelowna morning

show when the station signed on in 1971. He also worked at CKOV Kelowna for many years before leavingbroadcasting in 1985... Alistair Cooke, 95, in New York. Cooke, the broadcaster who epitomized highbrowTV as host of Masterpiece Theatre and whose Letter from America was a radio fixture in Britain for 58 years,died just one month after retiring because of heart disease.

LOOKING: FLOW 93.5 Toronto seeks both a General Sales Manager and a Promotions Manager. Seethe ad on this page, then click on the link in the ad to see complete descriptions for both opportunities...Other jobs we’ve heard about this week include: Alliance Atlantis Toronto - Manager, Legal Services;CHRD-FM Drummondville - Animateur(trice); Astral Media Radio Montreal - Programmeur; Les

Chaînes Télé Astral Montreal - chef de service, post-production; 94.9 CIMF RockDétente Gatineau -Rédacteur(trice) publicitaire; Astral Télé Réseaux Montreal - Préposé(e) au service à la clientele; TheSchool of Journalism at the University of Regina - Lab Instructor; Q107/CHQR Calgary - Senior AccountExecutive; AM900 CHML Hamilton - News Magazine Anchor & Talk Show Personality; CKOO-FM Verdun -Adjoint(e) aux ventes and Représentant aux ventes; Corus Entertainment Inc. Toronto (Jefferson Ave) -General Accountant - Programming & Production; Corus Radio Toronto - National Creative Coordinator;The Weather Network Mississauga - Senior Traffic Coordinator; Rogers Television Mississauga -Videographer; and, Channel M Vancouver - Assistant Assignment Editor.

REVOLVING DOOR: Jamie Ross is new PD at CKNX Wingham. She had been Morning Show Hostat CFOS Owen Sound... New MD at Big Country 93.1 (CJXX) Grande Prairie is Lyle West. It’s aninternal promotion... Brian Hill is new ND at CHRX-FM/CKNL/CKRX/CJDC Fort St. John.

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GENERAL: Last night (Wednesday) onThe History Channel, the story of TheBig 8 (CKLW) Windsor – calledRADIO REVOLUTION...The Rise And

Fall Of The Big 8 – hit the air. CKLW in the1960s and early 70s was the most powerfulforce in the music industry. ‘LW invented aprogramming style that was imitated inmarkets around the world. The Big 8 – 50,000watts on clear channel 800 (AM) – had 62million listeners in prime time. (Ed’s note: Ifyou’re reading this on time, you might stillcatch the documentary. It’s on at 8 ET.)... TheRadio-Television News DirectorsAssociation of Canada has announced thepresentation of a Special LifetimeAchievement Award to the late Israel “Izzy”Asper, founder of CanWest GlobalCommunications Corp. It will be presented toLeonard Asper, accepting on behalf of theAsper family, at the RTNDA’s nationalconvention this June in Saskatoon. RTNDAhas also announced eight regional LifetimeAchievement Awards: Pete McGarvey, Orillia(Central Canada); Bruce Graham, Windsor NS (Atlantic); Andy Walsh, Richmond (BC); J.J. Richards,Vancouver (BC); Keith Bradbury, Roberts Creek (BC); George Garrett, Surrey (BC); Roger Currie,Winnipeg (Prairie); and, Jim Mattern, Saskatoon (Prairie)... Canada’s TV broadcasters spent $654 millionon news and information programming in 2002 -- 54% of the $1.119 billion in conventional expenditures onCanadian TV programming. But, according to a Senate Committee on Transportation andCommunications' interim report on the Canadian news media, only 1.1% of Canadian viewers watch CBCNewsworld, 0.5% watch CTV Newsnet – but 2.7% watch CNN. The committee has been holding hearingsover the last year. The committee found that profits in radio in 2003 were 22.7%, in conventional TV 18.3%,in pay and specialty television 17%...

RADIO: There are four new FM stations heading to Edmonton. The CRTC has approved applicationsfrom Rawlco (Edmonton) Ltd., O.K. Radio Group Ltd., Aboriginal Voices Radio Inc. (AVR), andCHUM Limited/Milestone Media Broadcasting Ltd. (a partnership). The CHUM/Milestone FM’er(majority owned by CHUM at 51%) will program Urban at 91.7 (100,000 watts), Rawlco gets Smooth

jazz Specialty at a frequency to be determined, O.K. Radio Group will program Modern Rock at 102.9(64,000 watts), and AVR won approval for a Native format at 89.3 (100,000 watts). Denied in this bid for theEdmonton market were CKMW Radio, Rogers Broadcasting, Harvard Broadcasting, Edmonton Radio,and Global Communications... Jimmy Pattison has dropped his lawsuit against Victoria's SeacoastCommunications, clearing the way for the sale of Mel Cooper's CFAX 1070/B107.3 Victoria to CHUM Ltd.

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It was back in January that CHUM agreed to purchase the AM-FM Victoria combo (for $7.5 million). Pattisonhad claimed an earlier agreement with Seacoast would give Pattison the right of first refusal for thosestations... American broadcast organizations concerned about obscenity on the air – and subsequent FCCreactions – may want to know about something called Guardien. It’s an automated profanity elimination andspoken word logging system manufactured by ENCO to be unveiled at NAB in Las Vegas later this month...Mix-97 (CIGL) Belleville morning show Host Sean Kelly learned the hard way that sharing a name with anIRA terrorist – who’s now in Los Angeles awaiting deportation – can be, at the least, inconvenient. Kelly wasdetained at Pearson International Airport in Toronto while trying to board a flight to Florida. After 90 minutesof questioning, and watching his family go on their scheduled flight, Kelly was released. The problem thenbecame paying for a flight on a different airline. The Irish Kelly was convicted in Northern Ireland for the 1988killing of two British soldiers.

SYNDICATION: There are more than 35 versions of the Frank Sinatra hit My Way (not including thoseattempts made in the televised Viagra commercials). Coming up Monday, April 12, is the 35thanniversary of the world's most covered, most played and most performed song and, to commemorateit, publisher Warner Chappell Music is coordinating simultaneous radio airplay around the world at

exactly 11:50 AM ET. All 35 versions of My Way will be available free for downloading on April 9. Go tohttp://content.soundsource.ca and use My Way in the User Name section and Frank as the Password...

REVOLVING DOOR: Clyde Ross is new GM/GSM at Dave FM Cambridge. Former SM Bill Dowlinghas left the station. Ross was most recently with CKEY-FM/CJRN Niagara Falls... CFQC-FM (HOT93) Saskatoon morning team of Jay & BJ (Jay Oliver and Billie Jo Ross) is leaving the station,

bound for Clear-FM (CKY) Winnipeg. Moving to mornings at HOT 93 is Jay Richards, who’d been doingafternoons... New Promotions Director for CJWW/HOT 93 FM/MAGIC 98.3 FM Saskatoon is Cristy Beggs,a promotion from within... Robert Watson, Group Marketing Manager for Dougall Media in Thunder Bay,has left the industry. Succeeding him is former Radio Sales Team Leader Cora Bourgeois, back frommaternity leave. Dougall Media operates CKPR/HOT 105 and Thunder Bay Television... Vic Folliott is newStation Manager at CKWR-FM Waterloo, succeeding Paul Scott who has left the business... Sony ofCanada has promoted Doug Wilson to President/COO, succeeding Hiro Sakai, who returns to Tokyo aftereight years in Canada. Wilson had been President of Sony Logistics America... Rick Landry, StationEngineer at CKLQ/STAR FM Brandon, has moved to Winnipeg-based OMT Technologies... The New RO(CHRO-TV) Ottawa has signed Cory Atkins, ex of CFRN-TV Edmonton, as its 11 p.m. Anchor... MichaelGrade, 61, will be the new Chairman of the British Broadcasting Corporation. He's the former head ofBritain's independent Channel 4 network and a one-time BBC executive...

SIGN-OFF: Austin Willis, 86, in Dartmouth. He was best known as the host of This Is the Law, a CBCshow that flourished in the 1970s. Earlier, he had co-starred in the Canadian-made TV adventureseries Seaway, about security agents working along the St. Lawrence Seaway.

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LOOKING: CHUM Kingston - a Promotions/Public Relations/Marketing Director; CBC Ottawa -Manager, Corporate Planning (Strategy and Business Development); RDTV Red Deer - StationManager/Local Sales Manager; Alliance Atlantis Toronto - Communications Co-ordinator, DramaticNetworks and a Production Executive; CHMT Timmins - a morning News Anchor/morning Co-Host;

Global TV Calgary - Anchor/Reporter; CTV Toronto - Broadcast Designer, Sports and a BroadcastDesigner, News, and an Engineering Technician; CTV Specialty Toronto - Traffic Coordinator and anAccount Coordinator; Global TV Toronto - News Media Manager; CBC Winnipeg - Reporter/Editor;CanWest Interactive Toronto - Account Executive and a Jr. Business Development Representative; GlobalTelevision Specialty Networks Toronto - Traffic Coordinator; CBC Toronto - TV Technician; CBCSudbury - Producer French Radio; CBC Yellowknife - Videographer; Corus Children's TelevisionToronto - Programming Coordinator; Corus Entertainment Television Division Toronto - Credit Analyst;CHEX-TV1 Oshawa - Account Executive; Rock 106/107.7 The River Lethbridge - Producer/Announcer;and, CBC Regina - Producer and a Reporter/Editor.

TV/FILM: ACTRA, the Canadian actors’ union, says Telefilm Canada has entered into an arrangementwith the Los Angeles-based Creative Artists Agency to hire actors for Canadian films. Further, saysACTRA, the “secret deal” is being done with taxpayers' dollars. Both ACTRA and the Writers Guildof Canada say the one-year pilot project represents a slap in the face for Canadian talent. Telefilm

argues that the deal with the biggest talent agency in Hollywood is good for smaller Canadian producers andfor Canadian talent living in Los Angeles. Telefilm Exec Producer Richard Stursberg stresses that the dealisn’t about encouraging more US films shot in Canada to save money, nor is it about using American actorsin Canadian feature films... A study conducted by the Child Health Institute at the University ofWashington has found that the more time preschoolers spend in front of the tube, the greater their risk ofhaving attention problems by school age. US researchers found that for each hour of TV watched daily,children boost their chances -- by about 10% -- of developing attention, or concentration, problems by theage of seven... CBC-TV has cancelled Disclosure, the investigative public affairs program. Disclosure’sdemise comes at the end of its three-year run and is blamed on falling viewership. The Corporation cancelledNewsworld’s CounterSpin last month... Mohawk College's Communications Media Department (inHamilton) celebrates its 25th annual Mediafest today (Thursday) with the presentation of its Honourary AndyAward to CBC Sports Commentator Brian Williams. The award recognizes Williams “his invaluablecontributions and achievements in the Canadian broadcast industry."

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TV/FILM: CHUM Ltd. hasacqu i red , sub jec t toregulatory approval, CraigMedia for $265-million.

Properties in question are Toronto1, A-Channel Calgary, A-ChannelEdmonton, A-Channel Winnipeg,CKX-TV Brandon, and specialtychannels MTV, MTV2 and TVLand. If the deal goes through,CHUM will have to sell Toronto 1because it owns two stationsalready seen in Toronto - CitytvToronto and The New VR (CKVR)Barrie. CHUM President/CEO JaySwitzer said, “It's probably fair tosay this is an urgent situation.That's probably a good word to usein terms of some of the pressuresthat Craig Media is facing in termsof their own challenges.” DrewCraig, President/CEO of CraigMedia said, “I would say thatthere's now three (private)television companies in Canadaand with things unfolding the waythey have in terms of concentrationof media in Canada, it's verydifficult for companies like ours tocome up the middle and thrive in that environment” ... “As much as we're happy to see the assets go intowhat we would deem to be great hands, it was a very difficult decision for our family to make, to get to thispoint.” As for a potential buyer for Toronto 1, Robert Prichard, President/CEO of Torstar Corp. said: “Onthe right terms and conditions, we could have an interest...”... The Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau(CAB) in the US wants to get Madison Avenue thinking about cable TV as being more like broadcast TV. TheBureau’s pitch claims that ad-supported cable, in aggregate, delivers more reach than the broadcastnetworks do among some key audience demos; that across nearly every demographic, US network TVcontinues to lose viewers to cable. Reach studies for 18-49s, say the Bureau, show 68% for broadcastersand 64% for cable (based on a CAB analysis that lumped ratings for all measured cable networks as a singleentity using December 2003 Nielsen respondent-level data)... Meantime, CBS - sensing a major opportunityfor the first time in two decades - is predicting that it will overtake NBC on Thursday nights and get double-digit CPM gains in the upfront. With NBC facing the loss of a key piece of its Thursday prime time, Friendsand Frazier, CBS is practically licking its corporate chops... Clutter Watch 2003, a study released fromMindShare’s Chicago office, says the big four US TV networks carried more clutter last year. Debbie

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Solomon, Senior Partner/Group Research Director,says “In 2003, two more networks, NBC and Fox,broke the 15 minute barrier. With ABC, the clutterleader, there are now three broadcast networksrunning over 15 minutes of non-program material perhour in prime time.” “Clutter” was described asanything other than the main program, e.g. networklogos, animated promotions for upcoming shows, splitscreens, digital text (aka snipes), and flash overlays,similar to pop-up ads on the Internet. Some localstations have aired weather warnings overcommercials, raising a new issue - - what happenswhen the commercial gets cluttered?... FromRichmond, Virginia, among the winners of this yearsJefferson Muzzle Awards is Amnet CBS Television.The awards, for suppression of free speech, arehanded out each year on Thomas Jefferson’sbirthday. CBS got its muzzle for refusing to air themini-series, The Reagans, amid conservativepressure. The citation reads: “... for acts of self-censorship demonstrating both hypocrisy and anunwillingness to stand up to public and politicalpressure.”

RADIO: John Wright, the owner of K-RockKingston, and Garry McColman, the co-ownerof KIX Country/The Border (which transmit

from Cape Vincent immediately adjacent to Kingstonon the American side), are said to be contemplating abusiness arrangement. McColman told the Kingston Whig-Standard that if a deal can be struck, his KIXCountry and the Border would move into K-Rock’s Kingston offices. McColman launched KIX Country earlylast month, shortly after Corus Radio killed its Kingston Country station. CRTC Spokesman Denis Carmelsays he doesn’t know how such an agreement would be viewed by the CRTC, saying: “I don’’t know becauseit’s not something we’’ve ever had to deal with”... The CRTC has approved an application by NorwestoCommunications Ltd. for an English-language FM radio station in Vermilion Bay, with rebroadcasttransmitters at Dryden and Kenora. The station will program Hot Adult contemporary music featuring mostlydance and contemporary hits. As one might have expected, Fawcett Broadcasting, with primary stationsat Dryden, Kenora and Fort Frances, filed an invention opposing the application. (Fawcett has been the solecommercial radio broadcaster in that area of northwestern Ontario for 65 years.) It argued that the applicant’sbusiness plan was unrealistic in its expectation that Dryden and Kenora could each support more than onecommercial station. Nowestco gets 103.3 MHz (@ 1,600 watts in Vermillion Bay, and rebroadcasttransmitters at Dryden (104.5 at 1,800 watts) and at Kenora a(104.5 at 1,700 watts)... Meantime, theCommission approved Fawcett’s application to flip CJRL Kenora to FM. It will operate at 89.5 with 40,000watts. CJRL will program the same format as currently on AM – Hot AC. Norwestco, noted above,intervened in opposition saying that approval of Fawcett’s application could have a negative impact onthem... The Team 1200 Ottawa Host Don (Dandyman) Romani has been suspended indefinitely after on-air comments about Toronto Maple Leafs enforcer Tie Domi. Romani, in banter, said Domi hits his wife.In a statement last Thursday, station owner CHUM apologized: “The Team 1200 regrets comments madeby host Don Romani regarding Tie Domi and a member of his family. Mr. Romani regrets makinginappropriate comments and has publicly apologized to Mr. Domi and his family.” Before being suspended,Romani described his remarks as a failed attempt at humour. The Leafs and Ottawa Senators are matchedin a first-round NHL playoff series... Clear Channel’s suspension of Howard Stern from six of its stationsis now permanent following an FCC proposal of fines close to $500-thousand against Clear Channel foralleged indecency during Stern's broadcasts. The FCC cited 18 alleged violations nearly a year ago...

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GENERAL: As expected, the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) has filed an appealof the recent court decision denying its request for Internet Service Providers to give up identities ofalleged flagrant digital music uploaders. CRIA says it will argue that the decision was “in error on anumber of legal bases.” In February, CRIA filed motions to require five ISPs to disclose the names

of subscribers alleged to be large-scale infringers distributing thousands of digital music files to millions ofstrangers. On March 31, the court denied the motion... The Radio-Television News Directors Associationof Canada (RTNDA) has announced that the CTV Television Network will receive its Friend of RTNDAAward at the association’s national convention in Saskatoon June 12. RTNDA President Terry Scott saysit’s both the company and the people who make CTV “a true friend of RTNDA.” The award is presented whendeemed appropriate to organizations that have shown a commitment to RTNDA and to the betterment ofbroadcast journalism in Canada. Previous winners are Broadcast News, CNN Newsource Sales, CanadaNewsWire, WIC, VOCM Radio, Golden West Radio and Broadcast Dialogue... During final journalismclasses at BCIT Burnaby Tuesday – BOOM! – an on-campus building exploded. While no deaths and onlysome injuries, the size of the blast drew local newsies to the scene. But a number of the students were there,too, getting hands-on experience. Several sold their video footage to Vancouver news operations whileothers filed stories to local radio...

REVOLVING DOOR: Chuck Camroux, unceremoniously bounced from his GM job at CJRT-FMToronto a short while back, is now Manager Corporate Development for the Toronto-based EvanovRadio Group (CKMW Radio Ltd.), owner of CIDC-FM Toronto/Orangeville, CKDX-FMToronto/Newmarket, and CIAO AM Toronto/Brampton... After 40 years, CHUM Ottawa VP/Director

of Sales Don Holtby is retiring... Rob Alexander is new Network Program Director for Newcap Albertaproperties (Alberta Radio Group)... Susan Marjetti has been appointed Regional Director of Radio forCBL-FM Toronto and Southern Ontario. Marjetti had been Program Manager... Bruce McAllister, a CHEK-TV Victoria Reporter/Anchor, moves to Global Calgary as Anchor/Investigative Reporter... The RadioMarketing Bureau has a new VP Business Development, Karen Best... Paul Scott, ex GM at CKWR-FMWaterloo, moves to the Broadcasting Program of Conestoga College in Kitchener April 19... Rae Stevensis new GSM at CIGV-FM (Giant FM) Penticton...

SIGN-OFFS: Norman Campbell, 80, in Toronto after suffering a stroke. The Producer-Writer-Composerwas hailed as being one of the founding geniuses of Canadian television. Campbell joined CBCVancouver as a radio producer in 1948. He won an Emmy in 1970 for his ballet production ofCinderella and another Emmy in '72 for Sleeping Beauty but is likely best-known for co-writing the

musical version of Anne of Green Gables (with Don Harron). Campbell also traveled south to direct TVspecials for Diana Ross, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Andy Williams, as well as episodes of the MaryTyler Moore Show and All in the Family... Terry Campbell, 58, in Vancouver. No cause for his death wasgiven. Campbell, a CBC Radio personality best known for his work on CBC Radio Two's Stereo Morningand Arts National Shows, started with CBC Radio in Winnipeg in 1967 and worked in various on-air andproducing jobs with the network through 1992.

LOOKING: Jobs we’ve heard about this week include: Alliance Atlantis Toronto - Closed CaptionEditor; CTV Winnipeg - Part-time Maintenance Technician; CTV Toronto - Systems SoftwareSpecialist; Report On Business Television Toronto - Studio Technician; CBC Ottawa - Manager,

Human Resources Administrative Services; CBC Sudbury - Reporter/Editor; CBC Toronto - BusinessManager, Network Radio News, Current Affairs and CBL; CBC Regina - Senior Maintenance Technologist;Rock 101.9/The Jewel Cornwall - Promotions Director; CHAY FM/CIQB FM Barrie - Part-time NewsJournalist; CKWF-FM/CKRU/CHEX-TV Peterborough - Part-time News Reporter/Videographer; CFZZ-FMSt-Jean - Program Director; Rogers Television Mississauga - Mobile Producer; StornowayCommunications Toronto - Controller; Rogers Television Toronto - Master Control Operator; RogersRadio Ottawa - Business Manager; and, Global Regina - a Weather Anchor.

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TV/FILM: The financially-troubled BanffTelevision Foundation, which saw it make avoluntary assignment in bankruptcy, says it nowhas “a financial and operational restructuringdesigned to ensure a stable and dynamic futurefor the Banff Television Festival.” TheFoundation and the Trustee in Bankruptcy –Richter Allan & Taylor, LLC – got an order ofthe Court of Queen’s Bench of Albertaapproving the sale of the Foundation’s assets toa new not-for-profit foundation (the “NewFoundation”). As part of these proceedings, anew media, communications and informationindustry investment firm (Achilles Partners,LLC) will take over responsibility for the 2004Banff Television Festival. With restructuringexpected to be complete within the week, theBoard of Directors will consist of seniorrepresentatives of the Canadian TV industry.And, as part of the restructuring, Festival CEOW. Paterson Ferns will resign and besucceeded by Robert Montgomery, a principalof Achilles Partners. Current intentions are forFerns to become a part of the Banff teamfocusing on international development andcontent creation. Loren Mawhinney of GlobalTelevision is Chair of the Banff TelevisionFoundation Board of Directors... Canada’scablecos have filed application with the CRTCto carry Fox News. The Canadian CableTelevision Association thinks that with suchapproval, carriage would help boost digital tiersubscriptions. Last year, the Commission turned down an application for cable to carry HBO, ESPN and FoxNews. This application, however, is much pared-down... CanWest Global Communications plans on sellingFireworks Entertainment and taking a $200 million writedown. The floundering program and productiondivision, says CanWest, suffers from a “continued and persistent weakness in demand for North Americancontent in international markets.” The company says it’s negotiating with “a number of parties” that might beinterested in buying what remains of Fireworks – the film and TV library and distribution operations... CBC,in a continuing reorganization of TV programming, has issued layoff or redundancy notices to 29 employeesin news, current affairs and sports. The notices in Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa, Halifax and Montreal arelargely the result of the cancellation of Disclosure, the investigative current-affairs show, and thereconfiguration of Play, a Newsworld pop-culture program. Most of the 29 employees are being temporarilyreassigned to other shows, but some production assistants as well as at least one producer were laid off...

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American TV broadcasters heaped scorn on theFCC at the NAB convention in Las Vegas afterthe US regulator announced the death of analogin favor of HD by 2009. The problem, they say,is that it could let cablecos convert the newsignals back to analog. The FCC proposed theairing of digital-only signals by 2009, whichcould force consumers to buy either a newHDTV set, a tuner, or a box to convert themback to analog. The switch to digital was tohave happened by the end of 2006 (or when85% of US households can receive the digitalsignals. Broadcasters say they’re willing butwant to ensure that cablecos send the newdigital signals to customers and only convert itto analog in homes that don’t have equipment tosee digital. At present, fewer than 400 (of the1,200) TV stations airing digital are carried oncable systems... Even predictable levels ofviolence need Viewer Advisories, says theCanadian Broadcast Standards Council.CBSC found that an episode of the UltimateFighting Challenge on TSN did not breachArticles 3 (Scheduling) and 10 (Violence inSport Programming) but, however, the failure toair viewer advisories breached Article 5 (ViewerAdvisories). Check this and other recentdecisions at www.cbsc.ca...

RADIO: Jon Pole and Andrew Dickson havewon CRTC approval for an FM’er at Renfrew.The station will be in a single-station marketoperating at 96.1 MHz (with 1,660 watts). Poleand Dickson plan to program an AC/MORformat... Rogers Radio has franchised itsJACK FM format to KJAC-FM Denver...

GENERAL: Rogers Communications reporteda first-quarter net loss of $64.8 million althoughoperating revenue increased 13.4%, driven bystrong growth in its mobile-phone subsidiary.January-March operating revenue was $1.26billion, up from $1.12 billion in the year-agoquarter. Rogers reported an operating profit of$381.9 million, with Rogers Wirelesscontributing growth of 40.9%, cable growing8.8% and the media division adding 8.3%. But,after items including almost a quarter of a billiondollars in depreciation and amortization and$124 million in interest on long-term debt, the quarter's net loss of $64.8 million came to 33 cents per share.This compared with a year-ago profit of $23.7 million, six cents per share... CHUM Limited reported a $1.2-million profit in its latest quarter. Higher revenues and lower interest costs helped reverse a small loss in theyear-earlier period. CHUM earned four cents per share in its second quarter ended February 29. December-through-February revenues rose 4%, to $125.7-million... CanWest Global Communications produced aquarterly net loss of $211.3 million amid “disappointing” resultsfrom its Canadian TV properties and the downfall of its program production division, Fireworks. Revenue inits second quarter ended Feb. 29 was $494 million, down from $501 million in the year-ago period. The

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$211.3-million loss, $1.19 per diluted share, compared with a year-ago profit of $9.9 million, one cent pershare. Revenue from Canadian television operations fell to $161.2 million from $171.3 million and thesegment's earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization faded to $30 million from $42.5million. The CanWest board confirmed former New Brunswick premier Frank McKenna as chairman.McKenna had been interim chairman since the CanWest founder Izzy Asper’s passing last October...Winning broadcasters at the Atlantic Journalism Awards in Halifax last Saturday are: VOCM St. John's– spot news award; ATV Halifax – TV spot news; CBC Television won top spot in five other broadcastcategories – enterprise reporting, videojournalism, continuing coverage, feature writing and photojournalism;CBC Radio won four radio awards – enterprise reporting, continuing coverage; feature writing and newjournalist... Finalists at the British Columbia Association of Broadcasters 57th annual convention May14 at Penticton are: (for Radio) Best Creative – MOJO Vancouver; CKBL/CHSU Kelowna; and, CHSUKelowna. Excellence in News Reporting – News1130 Vancouver; Mountain FM Squamish/Whistler;and, B-100 Kamloops. Special Programming – 100.3 The Q Victoria; 100.3 The Q Victoria; and, CKNWVancouver. Community Service – CJJR-FM Vancouver; CKDV/CKKN Prince George; and SUN FM(CHSU) Kelowna. Television finalists are: Best Creative – Channel M Vancouver; Global Vancouver;CH Victoria; and, Citytv Vancouver. Agency Creative – CFTK Terrace; and, Elevator Strategy,Advertising and Design Vancouver. Excellence in News Reporting – CTV British ColumbiaVancouver; Global Vancouver; Global Vancouver; and, CFJC-TV7 Kamloops. Special Programming– PGTV Prince George; Citytv Vancouver; and, CHBC-TV Kelowna. Community Service – CHTelevision Victoria; CFTK Terrace; and, CHBC-TV Kelowna...

REVOLVING DOOR: W. Paterson Ferns will resign his post as CEO of the Banff Television Foundation andbe succeeded by Robert Montgomery, a principal of Achilles Partners. Current intentions are for Fernsto become a part of the Banff team focusing on international development and content creation (see the firstitem in TV/FILM for the complete story) ... Tom Brokaw has set Dec. 1 as his final NBC Nightly News'broadcast. Brokaw's successor, Brian Williams, will take over as sole anchor the next day. Brokaw, 64,began as Nightly News Co-Anchor in 1982, then teamed with Roger Mudd... Farley Flex, VP of BusinessDevelopment at FLOW FM Toronto. He’s leaving to partner with Plasma Corporation, an integrated mediacompany based in Toronto...

SIGN-OFF: Micheline Charest, 51, in Montreal during cosmetic surgery. Charest who, along with husbandRonald Weinberg, founded children’s animation film company Cinar and sold their shares in it last month,were the subjects of financial scandals that battered the company. Cinar almost saw its stock price wipedout...

LOOKING: Jobs we’ve heard about this week include: The New PL London - Commercial Writer/Producer;Camosun College, Victoria - Radio Instructor; Alliance Atlantis Toronto - Senior Closed Caption Editorand Supervising Audio Editor/Mixer and Revenue Analyst; CTV Toronto – Engineering Technician and aProject Manager; Discovery Channel Toronto – Executive Assistant; Global Toronto – Field Producer anda Building Services Assistant and a Promotion Scheduler; CanWest Global Communications Winnipeg -Sr. Programmer/Analyst and a Legal Counsel; CBC Toronto - TV Sales Admin Representative and aBroadcast Media Librarian; CBC Ottawa - Administrative Assistant Corporate Communications and anAdministrative Assistant Strategy and Government Relations; CBC Regina - Senior MaintenanceTechnologist; CHEX-TV Peterborough - General Operator; Country 95.3 FM Toronto – Sales Assistant;CKDK-FM Woodstock - Evening Program Host; W Network Toronto - Program Coordinator; CorusEntertainment Toronto - Senior Graphic Designer; Corus Radio Cornwall - Promotions Director; and, TheWeather Network Toronto - Senior Traffic Coordinator.

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